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Arborist Exchange to the Wilds and Streets of NYC
Durable tree tags support public awareness of tree planting efforts and are integral to the system used to track watering by contractors. Photos by Marty Frye The Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA), with funding from the Urban Forest Foundation, sponsors municipal arborist exchanges. The purpose is to create [...]
Warwick’s Grant-Funded Arbor Day Celebration
Warwick Arbor Day poster contestants with their artwork. NYSUFC Board Member Karen Emmerich serves on the Warwick Town Tree Commission. Here she shares the Town’s 2015 Arbor Day celebration and activities, supported by an Arbor Day grant of $1000 from the Council (stay tuned to Taking Root e-news [...]
Jeff Kehoe on the Urban Forest Strike Team Training
Consulting Forester Jeff Kehoe NYSUFC Board Member Jeff Kehoe is an ISA Certified Arborist and consulting forester based out of Schenectady, NY. He has a lifelong appreciation for trees, and advanced degrees in forest management and urban planning. Jeff participated in recent Urban Forest Strike Team (UFST) training [...]
Barb Neal on the Urban Forest Strike Team Training
Barb Neal (right) with UFST training teammate, NYSDEC Forester Garrett Koplun Urban Forest Strike Teams (UFSTs) are a means for city foresters, state foresters, commercial arborists, and others to quickly come to the aid of a region whose urban forest has been impacted by a natural disaster. UFSTs conduct [...]
NYS DEC’s First Urban Forestry Program Intern: Laura Grant
Laura Grant NYS DEC Urban Forestry Program Manager Mary Kramarchyk says, “Summer 2015 was the first time our program hosted an intern. Having several projects in mind and not having enough time to do them myself, I set our new student guest on the quest of identifying possible Tree [...]
Rebecca Hargrave: Get to Know Her!
Rebecca measuring planting depth for a scarlet oak on the Morrisville State College campus on Arbor Day, 2014. Rebecca Hargrave is an assistant professor at Morrisville State College in Madison County in the central part of our state. She served on the NYSUFC Board for nine years. She [...]
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